The difference between a regular amp and a tube amp?

[junkiemanxl]

Can anyone tell me the difference between a regular amp and a tube amp?

In tone wise and reliability.

Thx & cheers!

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

heh, you wont get a straight answer. Between both, are subjects thats enought to write books after books.

 

[mus]

I agree with Path. You got to try out individual amps to find out the tone that you want out of it.

 

[Godspeed64]

*Yawn*

Too many threads out there..
http://soft.com.sg/forum/gear-guitar/544-tube-amp-n-solid-state.html
http://soft.com.sg/forum/gear-guitar/70111-trans-tube.html
http://soft.com.sg/forum/gear-guitar/41070-50w-tube-amp-suitable-hdb-use.html
http://soft.com.sg/forum/gear-guitar/1864-amps.html
http://soft.com.sg/forum/guitar-rookie-corner/51404-tube-power-amps.html
http://soft.com.sg/forum/gear-guitar/56102-why-do-some-pple-find-tube-amps-better-than-ss-amps.html
http://soft.com.sg/forum/gear-guitar/21226-high-end-solid-state-amp-low-end-tube-amp.html

 

[widdly]

Tube amps have an adjectival sound. On the other hand, transistor amps will amplify adverbially.

How long is a piece of string?

 

[RockerJ_77]

Well,they are three types of amps,basically,solid-state,tube,and digital. Tube amps,are stored with tubes while solid-state are mainly transistor based. Digital on the other hand is based on tones from famous amp's/effects incoporated into the digital amp itself.
Solid-state is rather dry sounding,whereas tube distortion sounds warm.
Nowadays,due to the number of amps around,most of us don't know wether which amp is which. Haha.